In June of 2017 I upgraded my Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) LTS install to Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus). In October of 2017 Ubuntu released 17.10. (Artful Aardvark). I had not needed to upgrade my Ubuntu 17.04 installation for a while, but I felt it was best to keep it up-to-date. I was also experiencing issues with it from day-to-day. I decided an upgrade might work to fix some of the issues I was having.
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How to Upgrade Ubuntu Distribution Versions in 5 Simple Steps
A few days ago I was attempting to install the OpenSCAP security compliance evaluation tool on a system I had running Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) LTS. The base package of OpenSCAP was in my distribution’s repositories and I was able to easily install it. But, it turns out the SCAP Workbench package, which I also really wanted, was only available in Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus). My choices were to attempt to build from source with directions for Fedora or upgrade my current Ubuntu distribution to 17.04. Continue reading…